Abstract Data on Lesser Antillean Late Quaternary fossil bat assemblages remains limited,
leading to their general exclusion from studies focusing on Caribbean bat palaeobiodiversity …

Mist nets are commonly used to survey bat populations and to estimate bat biodiversity, but
several studies have found that mist net capture data and methods are biased due to a …

For much of the last third of the 20th century, the diversity of funnel-eared bats (family
Natalidae) was underestimated. Although as many as four genera and 11 species were …

The name Natalus stramineus has been historically applied to populations of the genus
Natalus from virtually the entire Neotropics. The geographic origin of the holotype of N …

The small Caribbean island of Montserrat has been battered by several hurricanes, and
beginning in 1995, pyroclastic eruptions from the Soufriere Hills Volcano have destroyed the …

Understanding the geographic and environmental characteristics of islands that affect
aspects of biodiversity is a major theme in ecology (Begon et al. 2006; Krebs 2001) and …

We describe and formally name a species of big-eared bat (genus: Micronycteris), collected
from the Lesser Antillean island of Saint Vincent. The new species is distinguished from its …

Stable isotope compositions of fossil bat guano have recently been developed as a proxy for
reconstructing terrestrial paleoenvironments. However, our understanding of exactly how …

Reports of hair loss in bats in the wild are scarce and have not been summarized. We
performed a literature review to summarize the affected species, prevalence, clinic …

Six species of bats have been previously reported from the Antillean island of Saint
Martin/Sint Maarten-Artibeus jamaicensis, Brachyphylla cavernarum, Molossus molossus …